5 Disturbing possibilities regarding Alien Life
The universe is so large and limitless that knowing everything about it is impossible.
It's full of breathtaking places and never ceases to astonish us. But, in addition to this beauty,
there may or may not be something frightening out there. Aliens have been perennial favorites
in many sci-fi movies and novels. In this video, we will talk about 5 disturbing and
unsettling possibilities regarding Aliens that might change your view of the universe.
5- We are Alone in the universe Arthur Clarke said, “We are either alone
in this universe or we are not, and both these thoughts are equally scary.” The one thing that
we don’t talk much about is the possibility that we might actually be alone in the entire universe.
The odds are stacked against this, our universe is filled with Billions of galaxies each with 200
Billion stars in it, the great majority of which are potentially habitable. Stars like our sun
are the most common in our universe. And this is the case only for our observable universe,
there could be many more beyond it. So, chances are, we're not alone.
This results in a reality that is quite different from what we now see. Earth would then violate the
Copernican principle, becoming the most important and privileged location in the entire universe.
We would then be the highest expression of life in the universe and indeed would represent the
universe perceiving and trying to understand itself. This is not the same as being a chance
for extraterrestrial civilisation among countless others. This would be the pinnacle of uniqueness
in a universe that despises a one off. In science, you always expect further examples,
because asteroids are not unique, but rather part of a population. This also applies to
civilizations. They can be uncommon or frequent, for sure, but the concept of just one ever
really pushes plausibility to the point that one naturally asks if it was purposeful at that time.
4- We live in a universe of machines
Our species has undergone evolution through the past thousands of years. A person twenty thousand
years ago was considerably different from us in many respects. And it's not just our technology
that distinguishes us; it's also our collective beliefs, such as education, reading, and so on,
which have all changed how we think and behave in comparison to a time when
none of it existed. But it is our current technology that stands out the most.
Who would have imagined that the human race would addict itself to an artificial brain,
the cell phone. What was once a technique of communicating through wires has evolved into
a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips, rapid connection via many channels, and entertainment.
And this pattern appears to be continuing. Over the next few decades, medical
research will increasingly focus on the direct incorporation of technology into the human body.
We will see Brain Machine interfaces like NeuraLink and even better versions of them,
and also be able to create artificial organs Or how about nanotechnological weight loss,
where one needn’t do a thing and the weight just melts away. We already have artificial limbs
for those who need it. In the future we might be at a point where we transition to become,
neuron by neuron gradually over time, a machine ourselves. Imagine being biologically born just
to die as a machine. But only if death genuinely occurs in machines. In that world, anything that
can be broken can be repaired and brought back to life, or backup copies can be created for a sort
of indefinite existence. You may be gone, but your memories and everything that made you who you are
remain preserved and may be accessed at any time; however, some data may have been lost. Digital
immortality is something scientists are already working on today. This results in a world in which
the progress of natural intelligence leads to the advent of machine intelligence. If this is the
natural order of things, machine civilizations may substantially outnumber biological civilizations.
Those machine civilizations may end up generating subsequent enhanced incarnations of themselves,
implying that machine descends from machine and evolution manifests itself in a new,
controlled form disguised as advancing technology. So I ask you, all of this would indicate an
initial biological civilization igniting the entire thing, but what if we discovered a
society with no proof of that, rather its lineage looks to have been machines all the way down?
3- Dangerous viruses have a potential to wipe out all population on earth
Well this topic has been a center for many sci-fi movies and novels and also has a separate branch
of science- Astrovirology dedicated to it! Life on Earth developed with its viruses.
Viruses have been there from the beginning of time, and it's plausible to infer that this
is the natural order. Viruses are present everywhere there is life. Earth's viruses,
on the other hand, are exceedingly specialized, and they must not just assault cells,
but the appropriate kind under the right chemical circumstances.
While some viruses on Earth can jump species, it only happens in very specific circumstances.
If you sneeze on a crocodile, it is unlikely to become ill. However, there is some debate about
whether viruses can generalize under the right conditions. Most scientists do not believe this is
the case, but it has been proposed that on a dying globe, like Mars at the time it began drying up,
members of the microbial ecosystem would have been adapting or becoming extinct on a massive
scale during that era if it had life. That might have pushed the viruses that preyed
on them to become more generic, allowing them to target any cell they came across.
This opens the door for dead worlds to be infected with viruses capable of attacking explorers and
thwarting any attempt at colonisation, as well as increasing the possibility of returning
explorers infecting Earth with a virus capable of wiping out most, if not all, life on the planet.
Even though this scary possibility is somewhat unlikely as planets are always being hit by
meteorites coming from other planets. We would see such a thing in Mars meteorites and we don’t,
and indeed probably we wouldn’t be here if it were the case. But what if we haven’t
explored enough? What if any other planet has it? What if we have just been lucky?
2- Aliens seeded Earth with life!
The origins of life on earth are obscure. It is unclear how a non-living chemical process may grow
into life. While it is plausible that we will someday comprehend this process and,
by extension, know if it is a simple thing that must occur everywhere in the universe,
or if it is an extremely uncommon combination of circumstances that can only occur very rarely.
However, it has been proposed that because it is such a rare occurrence, some process must spread
life throughout the universe. This is known as interstellar panspermia, in which rocks can
travel for millennia carrying latent life and then seed it wherever they chance to fall. However,
it is doubtful that life could survive long enough to travel intergalactic distances. However,
it is possible if it is artificially kept and safeguarded by an extraterrestrial civilisation.
This might happen in two ways: intentionally or unintentionally. The unintended approach would be
if an extraterrestrial culture visited early Earth and inadvertently contaminated it with
its microorganisms, which are now our Microbes. They may have been travelling through and looked
around a fascinating planet that may have life developing on it, but discovered that it did not,
but in the process accidently put life on it that would later evolve into a civilisation
that enjoys mobile phones and doughnuts. The second possibility is that they did it on purpose,
seeing some benefit or urgency in spreading life wherever it might find a footing.
This is more like gardening, where you plant beans where there aren't any, and presto,
you have beans. They may plant the seed and check in on it from time to time until it develops into
a civilisation and they establish appropriate contact, and intelligence so fills the cosmos.
Or they may have been extinct over such a long period of time, and the life they leave behind
is their legacy. This leads to an unusual choice inside SETI. A civilisation of this kind may have
encoded a message in the DNA of every species on Earth. Finding such an artificial marker inside
DNA is difficult, but it is possible. DNA is an extraordinarily sophisticated and comprehensive
data storage system, thus finding such an abnormal identifier within it is difficult,
but it is possible. Perhaps the proof of life out there existed all along within us.
1- The Alien Simulation Scenario
A long-standing philosophical dilemma has been whether we live in a simulation rather than an
actual reality. Movies like Matrix display this very perfectly. This has lately acquired
prominence in the form of simulation theory, the most known example being the concept of ancestor
simulation. This is where a civilisation develops a simulation of its own history,
probably to observe what the cosmos was like in the distant past. Perhaps they wanted to know
what it was like to be totally human again, or perhaps they wanted to try to rebuild missing
elements of their own past. Some theories even go so far as to suggest that the universe is
almost probably a simulation of this sort, but I believe that's pushing it a bit. However, there
is one disquieting aspect of the simulation theory concept. If such a world is allowed to flourish,
it will create not just the civilisation in issue, but others as a result. It would be one relevant
civilisation and a slew of additional redundant ones that the simulators may be unaware of
but may theoretically arise. Perhaps this is how they research extraterrestrial cultures. However,
this may also explain the great silence, in that the simulators simply create one civilization and
no others are permitted to exist due to ethical considerations. But if that's not the case, and
civilizations may form on more than one planet, as the apparent expanse of the cosmos would suggest,
we could be an accidental result living in an alien civilization's ancestral simulation.
Whether these possibilities are correct or not, only the future will tell.
But they all are equally convincing. So what do you guys think about these
unsettling possibilities? Which one is the most convincing for you? Let us know what you think in
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